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The Lightspark Flash Player Reaches Beta

05-18-2010, 01:20 PM

Phoronix: The Lightspark Flash Player Reaches Beta

While Adobe Flash has become quite common on the Linux desktop, not everyone is happy with it either due to the browser plug-in crashing, high memory and CPU usage, or the simple fact that it's a closed-source Adobe product. There have been efforts underway by the open-source community to create an open-source Flash player by reverse-engineering the closed-source blob and looking at Adobe's released SWF specification. Two of the most popular open-source Flash players are SWFdec and Gnash, which is backed by the Free Software Foundation, but there is also another Flash player that has just reached a beta status...

Adobe Flash sucks so hard I don't even bother trying to watch YouTube videos properly nowadays when running Linux. I still hope Google announces plans to open source VP8 and to use it for YouTube tomorrow during the Google IO, otherwise I'll try this one out.

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Adobe Flash sucks so hard I don't even bother trying to watch YouTube videos properly nowadays when running Linux. I still hope Google announces plans to open source VP8 and to use it for YouTube tomorrow during the Google IO, otherwise I'll try this one out.

It doesn't play back any audio at the moment, just video. So I doubt you would be better of

Also YouTube had a pretty okay-ish HTML5-Option running earlier this year but it wasn't updated and doesn't work reliable anymore with the newest changes to YouTube, but who knows what they will announce tomorrow

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This is really painful. Watching all these different groups trying to replicate, in varying degrees of success, something which is conceptually flawed.

We don't need flash. We don't need closed flash, we don't need open flash, we don't need ANY flash. It doesn't DO ANYTHING USEFUL.

I think it would make a lot more sense for all of those developers wasting their time and effort on replicating this flash garbage to put their effort into building REPLACEMENTS for existing web flash content -- for free. They could actually contribute to CLEANSING the world of this TRASH rather than increasing the support for it and prolonging the agony.

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This is really painful. Watching all these different groups trying to replicate, in varying degrees of success, something which is conceptually flawed.

We don't need flash. We don't need closed flash, we don't need open flash, we don't need ANY flash. It doesn't DO ANYTHING USEFUL.

I think it would make a lot more sense for all of those developers wasting their time and effort on replicating this flash garbage to put their effort into building REPLACEMENTS for existing web flash content -- for free. They could actually contribute to CLEANSING the world of this TRASH rather than increasing the support for it and prolonging the agony.

Flash needs to be ELIMINATED.

I take it you own an iphone?

Of course flash is still useful, it will probably still be useful even one html5 becomes ubiquitous. There already are alternatives - silverlight/moonlight and javafx to name two. But if a full functional free alternative flash plugin were created that would be fantastic.

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Also YouTube had a pretty okay-ish HTML5-Option running earlier this year but it wasn't updated and doesn't work reliable anymore with the newest changes to YouTube, but who knows what they will announce tomorrow

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This is really painful. Watching all these different groups trying to replicate, in varying degrees of success, something which is conceptually flawed.

We don't need flash. We don't need closed flash, we don't need open flash, we don't need ANY flash. It doesn't DO ANYTHING USEFUL.

I think it would make a lot more sense for all of those developers wasting their time and effort on replicating this flash garbage to put their effort into building REPLACEMENTS for existing web flash content -- for free. They could actually contribute to CLEANSING the world of this TRASH rather than increasing the support for it and prolonging the agony.

Flash needs to be ELIMINATED.

Be fair now, it does a lot of useful things and there are a lot of replacements being build right now. Yeah sure, it doesn't do the the useful things very efficient but guess what? You got to row with paddles you have.

Stop complaining and start doing something productive for the OS community if it is so dear to you.